Intergroup Attitudes and Relations in Childhood Through Adulthood

Prejudice and stereotyping are common processes between groups, and these processes frequently result in conflict. This volume presents work by both developmental and social psychologists on the origins of intergroup conflict, along with research on ways to reduce conflict between groups.

1: Sheri R. Levy and Melanie Killen: Intergroup Attitudes and Relations in Childhood Through Adulthood: An Introduction
Section I: The Formation of Intergroup Attitudes and Relationships
2: Mark Bennett and Fabio Sani: Children's subjective identification with social groups
3: Drew Nesdale: Peer Group Rejection and Children's Intergroup Prejudice
4: Dominic Abrams and Adam Rutland: The Development of Subjective Group Dynamics
5: Andrea E. Arthur, Rebecca S. Bigler, Lynn S. Liben, Susan A. Gelman, Diane N. Ruble: Gender Stereotyping and Prejudice in Young Children: A Developmental Intergroup Perspective
6: Mahzarin R. Banaji, Andrew Scott Baron, Yarrow Dunham, Kristina Olson: The Development of Intergroup Social Cognition: Early Emergence, Implicit Nature, and Sensitivity to Group Status
Section II: Social Evaluation and Reasoning about Intergroup Attitudes and Relationships
7: Ileana Enesco, Silvia Guerrero, Carolina Callejas, Irene Solbes, and Alejandra Navarro: Intergroup attitudes and reasoning about social exclusion in majority and minority children in Spain
8: Melanie Killen, Heidi McGlothlin, and Alexandra Henning: Explicit Judgments and Implicit Bias: A Developmental Perspective
9: Sheri R. Levy, Dina M. Karafantis, and Luisa Ramirez: A Social-Developmental Perspective on Lay Theories and Intergroup Relations
10: Maykel Verkuyten: Multiculturalism and group evaluations among minority and majority groups
11: Stacey S. Horn: The Multifaceted Nature of Sexual Prejudice: How Adolescents Reason about Sexual Orientation and Sexual Prejudice
Section III: Fostering Change in Intergroup Attitudes and Relationships
12: Lindsey Cameron and Adam Rutland: An Integrative Approach to Changing Children's Intergroup Attitudes
13: Samuel L. Gaertner, John F. Dovidio, Rita Guerra, Margarida Rebelo, Maria Benedicta Monteiro, Blake M. Riek, Melissa A. Houlette: The Common Ingroup Identity Model: Applications to Children and Adults
14: Michele A. Wittig: A Mutual Acculturation Model for Understanding and Undermining Prejudice Among Adolescents
15: Linda R. Tropp and Mary A. Prenovost: The Role of Intergroup Contact in Predicting Children's Interethnic Attitudes: Evidence from Meta-Analytic and Field Studies
16: Frances E. Aboud and Anna Joong: Intergroup Name-Calling and Conditions for Creating Assertive Bystanders